A variety of methods are available to rank coals in the market. Ranking cannot be simply performed on one parameter. There are many different coal quality parameters that affect the pricing of coal, utilisation performance of coal and the value-in-use of coal. A coal with Read More …
A thermal coal product database was developed containing a wide range of coal quality data and aims to represent the coal quality of the top 6 coal exporting countries. This blogs looks at some of the characteristics of the database. A comparison of ASTM rank Read More …
A previous blog identified that the top 6 thermal coal exporting countries (Indonesia, Australia, Russia, Colombia, South Africa and United States) accounted for approximately 90% of the export coal market. A coal quality database that covers the top 6 exporting countries will be very useful Read More …
Coal trade statistics are available from a number of sources such as the IEA (International Energy Agency) and EIA (the United States’ Energy Energy Information Administration). Decades of data is available for research although the data must be purchased from the IEA in their annual Read More …
So first of all, what is MarketMastor™? It was a term coined several years ago to describe work relating to the technical marketing of coals that utilised data science techniques. For example: Identify positive and negative attributes, and rank coals in the market as compared Read More …